The Beer Thread

So is anybody hitting any of the Savor events or Savor itself? If so, any must drink beers on your list?

So went out to eat recently and was all like "whoa….they have Kentucky bourbon barrel stout in bottle here'
until I had this


avoid…totally capitalized on the KBS craze and put out a pretty weak beer

Space wrote:
So is anybody hitting any of the Savor events or Savor itself? If so, any must drink beers on your list?

I drank about 80% of the tap list at Meridian Pint last night and I'm feeling it today, lots of pretty great beers + cheap good food as well. I also had a couple Hardywood Beers at Lost and Found (foolery and hoplar pineapple IPA).

Highlights at MP were:

Parish - Ghost in the Machine
Parish - Coffee Milk Stout
Melvin - 2x4
Wicked Weed - Marina, Amorous, Reccurant Sour Red

I will be at Savor, but most likely no more events.

Yes, Sideburnt, that's a turrible beer up there ^^^.

I opted for Brookland Pint yesterday. Easy access from work, early opening, and great taplist. Even said hi to Brennser as he was finishing up.

I had samples of five stouts, all very good. In order of preference:

Founders KBS
4 Hands Madagascar
Lagunitas High-Westified
Perennial Sump
Victory Java Cask

I washed them down with a sample of Ocelot Impression, one of the best Ocelot beers I've had.

Tonight it's Surly for dinner at Smoke and Barrel. Tomorrow it's a Melvin 2x4 lunch (only one serving, I swear) at BP, and then maybe Fremont at S&B and/or Maine beers at CK after work.

And then I go on a diet. Or at least stick to drinking beers that I have at home.


Would love to try that Ghost in the Machine, but hek you can't have everything in life.

Yada wrote:

Space wrote:
So is anybody hitting any of the Savor events or Savor itself? If so, any must drink beers on your list?

I drank about 80% of the tap list at Meridian Pint last night and I'm feeling it today, lots of pretty great beers + cheap good food as well. I also had a couple Hardywood Beers at Lost and Found (foolery and hoplar pineapple IPA).

Highlights at MP were:

Parish - Ghost in the Machine
Parish - Coffee Milk Stout
Melvin - 2x4
Wicked Weed - Marina, Amorous, Reccurant Sour Red

I will be at Savor, but most likely no more events.

Yes, Sideburnt, that's a turrible beer up there ^^^.

How do the 2x4 and the Ghost in the Machine compare?

Space wrote:

Yada wrote:

Space wrote:
So is anybody hitting any of the Savor events or Savor itself? If so, any must drink beers on your list?

I drank about 80% of the tap list at Meridian Pint last night and I'm feeling it today, lots of pretty great beers + cheap good food as well. I also had a couple Hardywood Beers at Lost and Found (foolery and hoplar pineapple IPA).

Highlights at MP were:

Parish - Ghost in the Machine
Parish - Coffee Milk Stout
Melvin - 2x4
Wicked Weed - Marina, Amorous, Reccurant Sour Red

I will be at Savor, but most likely no more events.

Yes, Sideburnt, that's a turrible beer up there ^^^.

How do the 2x4 and the Ghost in the Machine compare?

Different styles of ipas, but both tasty… Ghost is the hazy style of IPA that all the kids love these days, but had a bit of a bitter finish. I preferred the Ghost of the 2x4 by a hair.

Five tasters of Surly beers last night (Darkness, Smoke, Cacao Bender, Todd the Axman, Pentagram). All good. Still I think their beer "Overrated" best describes the brewery.

And the service at Smoke and Barrel, which is usually good, was miserably bad (in spite of it not being too crowded).

Space wrote:
Five tasters of Surly beers last night (Darkness, Smoke, Cacao Bender, Todd the Axman, Pentagram). All good. Still I think their beer "Overrated" best describes the brewery.

And the service at Smoke and Barrel, which is usually good, was miserably bad (in spite of it not being too crowded).

I agree… Other than Abrasive, overrated is a pretty good description of most of their beers.

did i mention the case of Yuengling is up to 17.99 at BJs?

Hutch wrote:
did i mention the case of Yuengling is up to 17.99 at BJs?

I saw they had a case of Miller Lite at Giant for $11.99 and I thought if you.

I also thought of the girl I dated right before I met my wife who was pretty hot though she shaved her pussy and I didn't like that…she drank Miller Lite. All in all, probably good that we didn't last.

Space wrote:

Hutch wrote:
did i mention the case of Yuengling is up to 17.99 at BJs?

I saw they had a case of Miller Lite at Giant for $11.99 and I thought if you.

I also thought of the girl I dated right before I met my wife who was pretty hot though she shaved her pussy and I didn't like that…she drank Miller Lite. All in all, probably good that we didn't last.

I dont' really like Mille Lite.. i did go through a Miller High Life (champagne of beers!) phase a long time ago though…

oh and TMI

Rockville world o beer draft list—

http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/IMG_2425.jpg


meh

Hutch wrote:

Space wrote:

Hutch wrote:
did i mention the case of Yuengling is up to 17.99 at BJs?

I saw they had a case of Miller Lite at Giant for $11.99 and I thought if you.

I also thought of the girl I dated right before I met my wife who was pretty hot though she shaved her pussy and I didn't like that…she drank Miller Lite. All in all, probably good that we didn't last.

I dont' really like Mille Lite.. i did go through a Miller High Life (champagne of beers!) phase a long time ago though…

oh and TMI

dat jungle bush doh

Tysons Bier garden opened this weekend
beer list is not too bad



picked up a tasty Stone Mixed 12 pack
Sublimely Self-righteous black ipa
citrusy wit
Ruination double IPA
IPA
bought it at freakin target! (said with a french accent) whilst getting packing tape

beer is self-righteous and witty now?

Aslin Champion of the Sun IPA is incredibly delicious. The Astro Zombie IPA was quite good too. That brewery is crushing it.

sweetcell wrote:

ja,ded wrote:
I was wondering the same about Mellow Mushroom, opening yesterday in Rockville.

MM strikes me as the Mickey-D's of craft beer: bright colors, all plastic, chintzy, very family friendly, loud.  i look forward to taking my little tykes there some day for 'za and a brew (for me), but doesn't strike me as a place that i would hang out at on my own or with buddies - unless maybe they had something amazing on tap, but MM never posts their draft list online which is a big minus for me. 

stuck my head in the Mellow Mushroom this afternoon… it's a step up from most pizza joints that only serve BMC, but nothing that would pull me in.  always having arrogant bastard on tap is nice, i guess.  i did have a better selection than Buffalo Wild Wings.

speaking of BWW, the MM has fenced off its outside tables in such a way that if you're in the central square, you have to walk all the way around to get to the front door… forcing you to walk in front of BWW to get there.  i'm not positive it's a good idea to be driving foot traffic to your competitors.

Rockville… gross…one giant strip mall plus traffic..

i'm packing my bags, ditching the family and am off to baltimore for homebrewcon.  stoked.

most, if not all, of the beer bars in b'more are doing special events this week.  check out this from Max's.  dunno if i'll be able to make it, too much to do and drink on site to bother paying for stuff that takes a taxi/uber to get to…

HomebrewCon 2017: minneapolis, june 15-17.  conference + prince pilgrimage?  hummm…

About 10 days overdue, but Savor continues to be hands down the best beer event I?ve ever attended (and I?ll argue that Savor is BETTER than the events leading up to it)!!!

Too many good beers to name, but my top ten in no particular order.   60% of the list are breweries I've never heard of (until leading up to Savor) and most likely would've never tasted had I not attended that event.

? Barrel Aged Expedition Stout - Bells
? Kriek - Two Roads Brewing
? Savant Blanc - Perennial Artisan Ales
? Ghost in the Machine - Parish Brewing
? Friek - Odell Brewing Company
? Ad Idem - Lost Abbey
? Systema Natvræ - Devilwood & Apricot - D9 Brewing Company
? Viking Fraoch -  D9 Brewing Company
? One Off Banished Bretted Farmhouse ? Crux Fermentation Project (as good as any De Garde beer I?ve ever had)
? Stavropol ? Confluence Brewing Company